Igor Toronyi-Lalic
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Igor is the editor of Culture House at The Spectator. He's a co-director of the London Contemporary Music Festival and author of Benjamin Britten (2013) for Penguin.
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@TheDriveIn, Blackheath review - comedy and caraoke
Drive-ins are now firmly establishing themselves as the only method by which culture fans can see live arts in person for the future. Hot on the...
Album: The Streets - None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life...
Given the collaborator list on this album, it should be a bit of a mess. Brit punks IDLES,...
Theatre Lockdown Special 13: Early Lloyd Webber, vintage Rat...
Stop the presses! For the first time in nearly four months, The Arts Desk can point to the first of several live theatre events amongst the...
Steven Isserlis, Fidelio Orchestra Café review – distilled r...
What music would you choose to hear for your first live event after nearly four months of lockdown? For me, it would be...
Mrs America, BBC Two review - how a conservative revolutiona...
In the midst of our increasingly confrontational politics of...
Album: Shaggy - Hot Shot 2020
Hot Shot 2020 has been billed as a rerub of Shaggy’s colossal turn of the century release Hot Shot. It’s not quite an accurate...
The Choir: Singing for Britain Finale, BBC Two review - stir...
Once again the incredible healing powers of Gareth Malone swung into action, as his quest to find a universal anthem for the Covid crisis boiled...
The Battle of Britain, Channel 5 review - 80th anniversary o...
The notion of massed aircraft dogfighting over southern England seems inconceivable now, but the...
Album: bdrmm - Bedroom
Shoegaze stable Sonic Cathedral has, in truth, always been a much broader church than its name implies. From the...